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Now you can try Late Fragment yourself before buying the film. This interactive demo
and trailer shows you how the film works and how you can control the way it flows.
Follow different paths and gain new perspectives with every click!

We’ve actually done a number of different theatrical screenings. Typically, one of the producers or writer/directors will VJ the film in front of the audience. In this case, the VJ “performs” the film by deciding when and where to click and the audience has a passive viewing experience. In other screenings we have allowed the audience to collectively perform the film by passing a remote control around. In our screening in Zagreb, for the first time ever, we allowed our audience members to VJ the film one at a time. Whichever way we’ve decided to go, each screening has always been a totally unique one.

I write this at Heathrow, after over 36 hours of non stop wakefulness and generally disorganized and limited sleep (sleep is for the dead) and my thoughts are a touch decaffeinated. But here goes.

We arrived to Motovun July 29th, at 4am, finding ourselves atop a steep hill, within narrow, gnarly and medieval streets, greeting the Croatian sunrise with freshly deep-fried Croatian sausages. This nocturnal pattern of being would not change until we left the Glastonbury meets Sundance wondrous debauchery that is the Motovun Film Festival. I was expecting a cast of wildly gesticulating Eastern Europeans with molasses accents an scrunched under thought foreheads but, to my pure delight, found a vibrant crowd of 10% dreadlocked and fully hippified very pretty Croatians, four sweet and sexy Brits, our ridiculously delightful programmer Tanja, a crazy unwashed Frenchman we shall not discuss and a bunch of super serious Russians – all rumbling the confines of what feels like an ancient town baked like dough and then cracked by the sun. Ana, Tina and I slipped into a glamorously vampiric time (substituting alcohol for blood and sweaty bodies swirling around you for the perpetual transylvanian fog) and never ever looked back.

I think Late Fragment will be playing in this outdoor cinema space. (Is this place called Kino Barbican?) At any rate, we will likely do a performative cinema screening followed by a demo of “how the film works”.

This is the spot where the Motovun Film Festival takes place. Think Glastonbury meets Sundance. Thousands of young cineastes, artistes, partiers, adventurers flock to Central Istria, Croatia to camp for 5-6 nights to see some of the most innovative films from around the world.

From Wikipedia:

Motovun Film Festival is entirely dedicated to films made in small cinematographies and independentproductions (on 10 August1999, the day of opening of first Motovun Film Festival, there was not even one non-Hollywood film being shown in Croatiancinemas). In everything, except for the ambition and the quality, Motovun wants to be a small festival showing small films, small in the warmest sense of the word. Festival program consists of around 70 titles from all over the world, from documentaries to feature films, from short to long films, from guerilla made films to co-productions. The only criteria in their selection is that they fit in the open-minded atmosphere of the festival with their innovations.

In years since the festival first started it became widely popular among Croatian youth, especially students. Every year during the festival a camp for visitors is organized on the foothills of Motovun, where anybody can put up their tent almost for free (the daily fee of 5 kn (roughly 1 USD) is paid to the local tourist office). The visitors’ camp has become one of its hallmarks. In January 2007 The Guardian described the festival as “a cross between Glastonbury and Sundance” in its travel section.

It’s not often that you get a trained observer to capture and synthesize the evening of a DVD Launch. But last Thursday, in Vancouver at The Republic, we were very lucky to have caught the eye of media blogger Phillip Jeffrey whose blog Fade to Play is fast becoming one of the go to Vangroovy places in cyberspace.

Our Vancouver DVD Launch party was a success at the beautiful Republic Club on Granville St. The 2 storey, chandelier-clad space with multiple LCD screens flanking the bars is home to mostly 20 year old clubbers ready to dance on any given night. The owner of the Republic was kind enough to allow us to host a little bit of different crowd last Thursday, most of whom were members of Vancouver’s First Weekend Club. These folks were friendly, extremely engaged with cinema, and wonderful audiences for our Canadian films.

From their site:

First Weekend Club is a non-profit organization that strives to build audiences for great Canadian films through grassroots initiatives such as special screenings, Q&As with talent, premiere parties, movie alerts and much more! First Weekend Club is a free cross Canada film club that encourages members to attend opening weekend screenings. Hence the name, First Weekend Club.

We spoke with one of the FWC’s officers and were thrilled that they may be interested in having us perform Late Fragment live for one of their Canada Screens events.

Stay tuned here for more news and for pictures of the Vancouver event to be posted shortly.

Community Justice Initiatives extended an invitation to the Late Fragment team to screen at the historical King Street Theatre in downtown Kitchener as part of National Restorative Justice Week 2008. To end a symposium for professionals in the Restorative Justice field, an art display, and an awards banquet, we screened Late Fragment to an inspired and inspiring audience.

After a successful year of festival screenings around the world, it seemed most appropriate to end our year with such an audience. After all, it was the same community workers and Restorative Justice advocates that inspired the story of the film in the first place. Anita Doron, Tina Santiago and Jeff Parazzo, introduced the film and welcomed audience members to join in a performative audience cut. Audience members were eager to participate and braved the hot seat.

The credits were welcomed with an enthusiastic applause. The biggest complement we could have ever received came from one audience member: “The film stayed true to the every day work that we do here. Thank you for making this film.”

Special thanks goes out to Judah Oudshoorn, Revive Service Coordinator, Mark
Yantzi, Executive Director, Community Justice Initiatives, Jennifer Davies,
Revive Program Coordinator and Sandra Reimer, Writer/Communication Strategist for their enthusiasm and support.

Thursday November 21, 2008 7:00pm

King Street Theatre Centre, 36 King St. W.
Kitchener, ON

Category: Screening with discussion to follow

Description:

Late Fragment will be presented in Kitchener, Ontario as part of the National Restorative Justice Week. A discussion will follow with producer Ana Serrano, writer/director Anita Doron and actor Jeff Parazzo.
Order tickets at http://www.kstc.ca/ or by calling (519) 571-0928. Everyone attending the Us Them WE Conference will receive 1 free ticket to Late Fragment .

Tuesday October 21, 2008 7:30pm

Category: Screening

Description:

Join actor Jeff Parazzo, producer Ana Serrano, and writer/director Mateo Guez at the Alliance Francaise de Manille for an intimate screening of Late Fragment. For more info, check out Alliance Francaise.